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Biographical Sketches of Panel Members and Staff
TERESA A. SULLIVAN (chair) is University Professor of sociology and president emerita of the University of Virginia. President of the University of Virginia from 2010 to 2018, she previously served as provost at the University of Michigan, executive vice chancellor for academic affairs of the University of Texas system, and numerous administrative positions (including vice president and graduate dean) at the University of Texas at Austin. In 2019–2020, she was named interim provost of Michigan State University. A demographer with extensive background in census data, she authored Census 2020: Understanding the Issues (2020, Springer) and delivered the president’s invited address, “Coming to our Census: How Social Statistics Underpin Our Democracy (And Republic),” at the 2019 Joint Statistical Meetings in Denver. She is past chair and member of the Census Bureau’s Advisory Committee on Population Statistics. At the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM), she chaired the Panel on Higher Education Productivity and co-chaired the Committee on Improving Higher Education’s Responsiveness to STEM Workforce Needs, and has served on several other panels including the Panel on Immigration Statistics and the Panel on the Requirements for the Year 2000 Census and Beyond. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She has a B.A. from Michigan State University and A.M. and Ph.D. degrees in sociology from the University of Chicago.
MARGO ANDERSON is Distinguished Professor, emerita, of history and urban studies at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. Her research specializes in the history of the social sciences and the development of statistical data systems and in urban history. She is the author of The American Census: A Social History (first edition 1988 and second edition 2015, Yale University Press), lead editor of the first edition of the Encyclopedia of the U.S. Census (2000, CQ Press) and co-editor of the second edition (2011, CQ Press), and co-author with Stephen E. Fienberg of Who Counts? The Politics of Census-Taking in Contemporary America (1999, Russell Sage; revised edition, 2001). She is past president of the Social Science History Association and a fellow of the American Statistical Association, and has chaired the council of the Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research. At NASEM, she served as a member of the Panel on Census Requirements in the Year 2000 and Beyond. She has a B.A. from Bucknell University and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Rutgers University, all in history.
ROBERT M. BELL retired as statistical researcher at Google in 2017. Previously, he held extensive tenures at AT&T Labs–Research and at RAND. His research interests include survey research methods and machine learning methods, record linkage, and statistical issues in a wide range of public policy applications. His team won the $1 million Netflix Prize in 2009, a competition to build algorithms to predict Netflix customer movie ratings most accurately. At NASEM, he is a past member of the Committee on National Statistics (CNSTAT) and the Division Committee for the Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education. He chaired the Panel on Correlation Bias and Coverage Measurement in the 2010 Census and was a member of the Panel to Review the 2000 Census, and has been a member of several other NASEM panels. He is a fellow of the American Statistical Association. He has a B.S. degree in mathematics from Harvey Mudd College, an M.S. degree in statistics from the University of Chicago, and a Ph.D. in statistics from Stanford University.
CONSTANCE F. CITRO is a senior scholar in the Committee on National Statistics (CNSTAT) at NASEM. She previously served as CNSTAT director and senior study director. Prior to joining CNSTAT in 1984, she held positions as vice president of Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. and Data Use and Access Laboratories, Inc. She is a fellow of the American Statistical Association and an elected member of the International Statistical Institute. She received the Roger Herriot Award for Innovation in Federal Statistics in 1997 and the Waksberg Award in Survey Methodology in 2014. She has a B.A. in political science from the University of Rochester and an M.A. and Ph.D. in political science from Yale University. For CNSTAT, she directed evaluations of decennial censuses, the Survey of Income and Program Participation, microsimulation models for social welfare programs, estimates of school-age poverty for small geographic areas, and the study
that produced Measuring Poverty: A New Approach (1995)—the genesis of the Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM). She assisted the study that produced A Roadmap to Reducing Child Poverty (2019) and is currently assisting studies on the 2020 census, improvements to the SPM, and an integrated system of household income, consumption, and wealth statistics. She has edited or co-edited the 2nd–7th editions of CNSTAT’s flagship publication, Principles and Practices for a Federal Statistical Agency.
MICHAEL L. COHEN is a senior program officer for CNSTAT at NASEM. Previously, he was a mathematical statistician at the Energy Information Administration and held positions at the School of Public Affairs at the University of Maryland and at Princeton University. His general area of interest is the use of statistics in public policy, with particular focus in census undercount, model validation, and robust estimation. He is a fellow of the American Statistical Association and an elected member of the International Statistical Institute. He has a B.S. in mathematics from the University of Michigan and an M.S. and a Ph.D. in statistics from Stanford University.
DANIEL L. CORK (study director) is a senior program officer for CNSTAT at NASEM. He joined the CNSTAT staff in 2000 and has served as study director or program officer for almost all subsequent census- or American Community Survey-related studies, including the Panels on Residence Rules in the Decennial Census, Research on Future Census Methods (2010 Planning panel), Review of the 2000 Census, and Review of the 2010 Census, and the Standing Committee on Reengineering Census Methods. He also directed the Panel to Review the Programs of the Bureau of Justice Statistics and the Panel on Modernizing the Nation’s Crime Statistics (in cooperation with the Committee on Law and Justice), was senior program officer for the Panel on the Feasibility, Accuracy, and Technical Capability of a National Ballistics Database (joint with the Committee on Law and Justice and the National Materials Advisory Board), and contributed to the work of the Committee on Best Practices for Assessing Mortality and Significant Morbidity Following Large-Scale Disasters (Board on Health Sciences Policy). His research interests include quantitative criminology, geographical analysis, Bayesian statistics, and statistics in sports. He has a B.S. in statistics from George Washington University and an M.S. in statistics and a joint Ph.D. in statistics and public policy from Carnegie Mellon University.
KATHRYN EDIN is William Church Osborn Professor of sociology and public affairs at Princeton University. Previously, she was on the faculty of the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University and an associate fellow of the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin/Madison and of the Joint Center for Poverty Research at Northwestern University/University of Chicago. Her principal research interests include poverty and social inequality, urban and community
sociology, and family and gender. She is currently principal investigator or co-principal investigator on research projects on the social role of children and marriage among low-income adults, the role of local labor markets and child support programs in affecting fathers’ economic and emotional involvement with their children, and couple dynamics among low-income married and unmarried couples with young children. Previously, she held faculty or research posts at University of Pennsylvania, Rutgers University, and the Russell Sage Foundation. Elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2014, she served on the Panel on Residence Rules in the Decennial Census and Panel on Data and Methods for Measuring the Effects of Changes in Social Welfare Programs. She has a B.A. in sociology from North Park University and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in sociology from Northwestern University.
MARC HAMEL retired as Director General of the Census Management Office at Statistics Canada in March 2020, after a 34-year career with the national statistical office. His management of the 2011 and 2016 quinquennial Canadian censuses marked the successful expansion of Internet response to census inquiries and of related innovative methodologies, as well as major improvements to census operational systems. In this position, he also initiated and directed a large research program on the use of administrative sources to replace direct enumeration in future censuses. During his tenure on the Census Program, he led international groups of census experts in the redevelopment of the Principles and Recommendations for Censuses of Population and Housing under the United Nations Statistical Division (2015) and those under the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE; 2014) in preparation for the 2020 international round of censuses. He also was the chair of the Steering Group of census experts under UNECE from 2010 to 2019, and a member of the International Census Forum (Canada, United States, United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand). Since his retirement, he wrote a paper on the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on censuses (commissioned by the UNECE), and was a consultant with the United Kingdom Office for National Statistics (on contingency planning for their 2021 census) and with Statistics Canada (on the changing risk posture for the 2021 Canadian census). He has a bachelor’s degree in social sciences (sociology and criminology) from Ottawa University.
GEORGE T. LIGLER is proprietor of GTL Associates, which provides systems integration/engineering and product management services related to telecommunications, computer system and hardware/software engineering, and information management to domestic and foreign clients. Since August 2018, he has also been, on a half-time academic year basis, the Dean’s Eminent Professor of the Practice in the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill/North Carolina State Joint Department of Biomedical En-
gineering. He has extensive experience in information management and software and computer system engineering, and previously worked at Burroughs Corporation (1980–1982) and Computer Sciences Corporation (1984–1988). Elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2017, he is currently a member of NASEM’s Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board and served on two major panels on the modernization of systems at the Internal Revenue Service. He began work on census issues as a member of the Panel on Research on Future Census Methods (2010 census planning) and was tapped as a member of the expert committee separately formed by the U.S. Secretary of Commerce to advise on options for the Census Bureau’s replan of its Field Data Collection Automation Contract in early 2008. He subsequently served as a member of the Panel to Review the 2010 Census and its subsequent Standing Committee on Reengineering Census Operations, those panels playing an important role in the design of the 2020 Census. A Rhodes scholar, he received his B.S. in mathematics from Furman University in 1971 and his M.Sc. and D.Phil. from Oxford University.
THOMAS A. LOUIS is professor emeritus of biostatistics at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. From 2018 to 2020 he was an expert statistical consultant to the Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research and from 2013 to 2015, he served as associate director for research and methodology and chief scientist of the U.S. Census Bureau; each of these via interagency personnel agreements with Johns Hopkins. Previously, he was on the faculties of Boston University, Harvard School of Public Health, and University of Minnesota School of Public Health, and was senior statistical scientist at RAND. He is a fellow of the American Statistical Association, American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics as well as an elected member of the International Statistical Institute. At NASEM, he chaired the Panel on a Review of Statistical Issues in the Allocation of Federal and State Program Funds and is a past member of both the Committee on National Statistics and the Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics, and several other Academies’ panel memberships. He has a B.A. in mathematics from Dartmouth College and a Ph.D. in mathematical statistics from Columbia University.
LLOYD B. POTTER has been state demographer of Texas since May 2010. In that capacity, he is director of the Texas Demographic Center at University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA), where he is also professor of demography. Prior to joining the UTSA faculty and becoming state demographer, he directed the Center for Study and Prevention of Injury, Violence, and Suicide at Education Development Center, Inc., and the youth violence and suicide prevention program at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. His work focuses on application of demographic and social science methods in public health settings. He has a B.S. in sociology
from Texas A&M University, an M.S. in education from the University of Houston at Clear Lake, an M.P.H. from Emory University, and a Ph.D. in demography and sociology from the University of Texas at Austin.
JOSEPH J. SALVO retired as chief demographer, Population Division, New York City Department of City Planning, in spring 2021, having previously served as director of the division. He is now affiliated with the National Conference on Citizenship and is institute fellow in the Social and Decision Analytics Division, University of Virginia Biocomplexity Institute. He has been a member of the Committee on Population Statistics of the Population Association of America and served as past president of the Association of Public Data Users. He is currently one of the data analysts engaged by the American Statistical Association’s task force on census quality indicators. For the National Academies, he co-chaired the planning committee for the Workshop on 2020 Census Data Products and has continued as effective co-chair of the series of follow-up expert meetings on disclosure avoidance in the 2020 Census. He was a member of the Panel on Research on Future Census Methods (2010 Census planning) and of three panels related to the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey, and cochaired the planning committee for the Workshop on Respondent Burden in the American Community Survey. Dr. Salvo is a fellow of the American Statistical Association. He has M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in sociology from Fordham University.
REGINA SHIH is senior policy researcher and director of the Social and Behavioral Policy program at RAND, where she previously headed the Climate Change and Health group. Her research focuses on environmental health and behavioral health, and her projects have included developing a national database for assessing cognitive aging and dementia risk based on sociodemographic and physical characteristics of neighborhoods. Her work involves mixed-method studies involving large epidemiological study designs and statistical analyses such as latent variable modeling. She serves on the board of the National Alliance for Caregiving. She has a B.A. in neuroscience from Johns Hopkins University and a Ph.D. in psychiatric epidemiology from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
C. MATTHEW SNIPP is Burnet C. and Milfred Finley Wohlford professor of sociology at Stanford University. At Stanford, he has been director of Secure Data Center, deputy director of the Institute for Research in the Social Sciences, and chair of the Native American Studies program, and director of the Center for Comparative Studies of Race and Ethnicity. He has written extensively on American Indians, focusing specifically on the interaction of American Indians and the U.S. census. Prior to moving to Stanford, he was associate professor and professor of rural sociology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he held affiliate appointments with several other units, and assistant and associate professor of sociology at the University of
Maryland. A current member of the Committee on National Statistics, he has served on numerous census-related panels for NASEM, including the Panel on Research on Future Census Methods (2010 planning), Panel on Residence Rules in the Decennial Census, Panel to Review the 2010 Census, and the Standing Committee on Reengineering Census Operations. He has also served on the Census Bureau’s Racial and Ethnic Advisory Committee and on the Board of Scientific Counselors for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/National Center for Health Statistics. He has a M.S. and Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
KATRINA BAUM STONE is a senior program officer for CNSTAT at NASEM. She was one of the first researchers at the Cartographic Modeling Lab and has since worked with multiple federal agencies as a contractor or public servant including as government program director for J.D. Power, an expert appointment at the U.S. Peace Corps, and more than a decade at the U.S. Department of Justice as a senior statistician in the Bureau of Justice Statistics and senior research officer in the National Institute of Justice. Her research focuses on risk and resilience for vulnerable populations such as children, veterans, and survivors of sexual assault, stalking, and human trafficking. She served on the Federal Interagency Forum on Committee on Child and Family Statistics and as a founding member on the Institute of Medicine’s Forum on Global Violence Prevention. She has a B.A. in law and society from University of California, Santa Barbara, an M.S. in criminal justice from Northeastern University, and a Ph.D. in social welfare from the University of Pennsylvania.
EDWARD TELLES is distinguished professor of sociology at the University of California, Irvine, where he is director of the Center for Research on International Migration. Prior to moving to Irvine, he was on the faculties of the University of California, Los Angeles and Santa Barbara campuses, and Princeton University. He has also been program officer in human rights at the Ford Foundation’s Rio de Janeiro office, visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation, and visiting professor at the University of Campinas and the Federal University of Bahia, both in Brazil. He has directed major surveys of race and ethnicity in Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, and the United States, including the Project on Ethnicity and Race in Latin America (PERLA) project and the Mexican American Study Project (MASP). He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has a B.A. in anthropology from Stanford University, an M.A. in urban planning from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Texas at Austin.
WENDY UNDERHILL is director of elections and redistricting at the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL), based in Denver. In that capacity, she provides bipartisan information and analysis on redistricting law and processes, as well as election administration issues, and so serves as an
important conduit for census and related information to the redistricting community. Prior to joining NCSL in 2010, she worked as a freelance writer, a securities analyst at Incubix, and a budget and policy analyst at the U.S. Department of the Treasury and U.S. Senate Committee on the Budget. She has a B.A. in English literature from Northwestern University and an M.P.A. from Wichita State University.
DAVID VAN RIPER is director of spatial analysis at the Minnesota Population Center at the University of Minnesota, beginning work at Minnesota as a graduate research assistant in 2001. He is co-principal investigator on two Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS) products, the National Historical Geographic Information System (NHGIS) that provides both historical and contemporary small-area data in GIS format for the United States and GeoMarker that provides secure geocoding and small-area data linkage services. His research interests include population health and health systems and the analysis of structural racism and health inequities. For NASEM, he participated in the December 2019 Workshop on 2020 Census Data Products and, as participant in the subsequent expert meetings on application of differential privacy to the 2020 Census, provided essential service to census stakeholders by assuming tabulation and dissemination functions for multiple iterations of the Privacy Protected Microdata Files (PPMF) through the NHGIS site. He has a B.A. from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and an M.A. from the University of Minnesota, both in geography.
